Her voice lingers on and her memory is strategic: Effects of gender on directed forgetting

The literature on directed forgetting has employed exclusively visual words. Thus, the potentially interesting aspects of a spoken utterance, which include not only vocal cues (e.g., prosody) but also the speaker and the listener, have been neglected. This study demonstrates that prosody alone does...

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Main Authors: YANG, Hwajin, YANG, Sujin, PARK, Giho
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-24132023-04-12T04:53:22Z Her voice lingers on and her memory is strategic: Effects of gender on directed forgetting YANG, Hwajin YANG, Sujin PARK, Giho The literature on directed forgetting has employed exclusively visual words. Thus, the potentially interesting aspects of a spoken utterance, which include not only vocal cues (e.g., prosody) but also the speaker and the listener, have been neglected. This study demonstrates that prosody alone does not influence directed-forgetting effects, while the sex of the speaker and the listener significantly modulate directed-forgetting effects for spoken utterances. Specifically, forgetting costs were attenuated for female-spoken items compared to male-spoken items, and forgetting benefits were eliminated among female listeners but not among male listeners. These results suggest that information conveyed in a female voice draws attention to its distinct perceptual attributes, thus interfering with retention of the semantic meaning, while female listeners' superior capacity for processing the surface features of spoken utterances may predispose them to spontaneously employ adaptive strategies to retain content information despite distraction by perceptual features. Our findings underscore the importance of sex differences when processing spoken messages in directed forgetting. 2013-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1157 info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0064030 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2413/viewcontent/YangH2013Plos.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Directed forgetting prosody gender sex differences female voice Applied Behavior Analysis Social Psychology
institution Singapore Management University
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Singapore
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topic Directed forgetting
prosody
gender
sex differences
female voice
Applied Behavior Analysis
Social Psychology
spellingShingle Directed forgetting
prosody
gender
sex differences
female voice
Applied Behavior Analysis
Social Psychology
YANG, Hwajin
YANG, Sujin
PARK, Giho
Her voice lingers on and her memory is strategic: Effects of gender on directed forgetting
description The literature on directed forgetting has employed exclusively visual words. Thus, the potentially interesting aspects of a spoken utterance, which include not only vocal cues (e.g., prosody) but also the speaker and the listener, have been neglected. This study demonstrates that prosody alone does not influence directed-forgetting effects, while the sex of the speaker and the listener significantly modulate directed-forgetting effects for spoken utterances. Specifically, forgetting costs were attenuated for female-spoken items compared to male-spoken items, and forgetting benefits were eliminated among female listeners but not among male listeners. These results suggest that information conveyed in a female voice draws attention to its distinct perceptual attributes, thus interfering with retention of the semantic meaning, while female listeners' superior capacity for processing the surface features of spoken utterances may predispose them to spontaneously employ adaptive strategies to retain content information despite distraction by perceptual features. Our findings underscore the importance of sex differences when processing spoken messages in directed forgetting.
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author YANG, Hwajin
YANG, Sujin
PARK, Giho
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YANG, Sujin
PARK, Giho
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title Her voice lingers on and her memory is strategic: Effects of gender on directed forgetting
title_short Her voice lingers on and her memory is strategic: Effects of gender on directed forgetting
title_full Her voice lingers on and her memory is strategic: Effects of gender on directed forgetting
title_fullStr Her voice lingers on and her memory is strategic: Effects of gender on directed forgetting
title_full_unstemmed Her voice lingers on and her memory is strategic: Effects of gender on directed forgetting
title_sort her voice lingers on and her memory is strategic: effects of gender on directed forgetting
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2013
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1157
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2413/viewcontent/YangH2013Plos.pdf
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